About The Pursuit of Nobility: Living a Life That Matters Hardcover: 312 pages Publisher: HCI (May 3, 2010) For centuries, “nobles” were defined by a mistake of birth; the privileged situations they came from. The nobility of today, however, usually come from ordinary backgrounds but have never been ordinary themselves, even as children. Instead members of […]
Eat, Nap, Play by Robin Spizman and Evelyn Sacks on tour April 2010
About Eat, Nap, Play: How to Get Even More Out of Your Child’s Day for Less Rock Your Routine and Be the Happiest Mommy on the Block Moms will concur—routines and creative ideas help your day and save your sanity. And once you’ve established a routine that works, the inclination is to stick with it […]
Gary Zukav, author of Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power, on tour April/May 2010
About Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power Human relationships used to be built around satisfying needs. In Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power (HarperOne: April 27, 2010; $24.99, hardcover), bestselling author Gary Zukav writes “the old type of relationship helped the old humanity survive by focusing the attention of participants outward onto circumstances […]
Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One, on tour April/May 2010
About God Is Not One God Is Not One is a major book in the tradition of classics like Karen Armstrong’s A History of God and Jack Miles’s God: A Biography. Author and religion scholar Stephen Prothero’s controversial follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy debunks the popular myth that all religions are […]
Bruce Frankel, author of What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life, on tour March 2010
About What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life: True Stories of Finding Success, Passion, and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Avery (March 4, 2010) It is a common refrain. Be it an impending retirement or the fear of growing older, many of us find ourselves […]
Donna Corwin, author of Give Me, Get Me, Buy Me on tour March 2010
About Give Me, Get Me, Buy Me: Preventing (or Reversing) Entitlement in Your Child’s Attitude Stop Entitlement Issues in Their Tracks and Take Back Your Parental Power Who’s In Charge? Parents have become afraid to say ‘no’ to their children’s demanding behavior. In Give Me, Get Me, Buy Me, Donna Corwin helps parents take back […]
Mia Lundin, author of Female Brain Gone Insane, on tour January ’10
About Mia With a growing reputation as an authority on women’s hormonal and emotional balance, Mia Lundin, R.N.C., N.P.. attributes her success to her own experience and her personal understanding of the physical and emotional effects of hormonal changes and from listening and treating thousands of women suffering from depression, anxiety, and irrational behavior due […]
Beth Maloney, author of Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD, on tour November 2009
About Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (September 22, 2009) The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, […]
Phyllis Hoffman and Honey, It’s All In the Shoes on tour July 2009
About Phyllis A leading figure in the publishing industry, Phyllis Norton Hoffman is majority owner and president of Hoffman Media, LLC. A native of Hoover, Alabama and a graduate of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, she began her career as a Certified Public Accountant with a nationally known firm before founding a special-interest publication company […]
Something Beyond Greatness by Judy Rodgers and Gayatri Naraine on tour June/July 2009
About Something Beyond Greatness An Eckhart Tolle-esque examination of life in the great lane. Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi. Most would agree—these were great people. But what about those individuals with whom we interface on a daily basis? Chances are many of them are good people, but would we dare to call them great? […]